TurkmenBarry Fiddles While Rome Burns

Wednesday

Mar 26, 2014 at 12:15 AMMar 26, 2014 at 12:50 AM

Americans don’t give a damn about Ukraine, and the world isn’t with us on isolating Russia. But, nonetheless, Obama is becoming so obsessed with Ukraine, to the exclusion of everything else, including the sudden and scary new intensity of the war in Syria, the Iran negotiations and a whole lot of other things in which Obama desperately needs Russian help. I can’t think of a smaller and less significant issue than the Israel/PLO negotiations, and yet we have the image of John Kerry, already distracted by Ukraine, flying off to Jordan to talk to Abu Mazzan about Israel.

In case you haven’t noticed, World War III is breaking out, and no one seems to be paying attention. The Syrian War has dangerously spilled over into Turkey in the last few days. The risk of a war pitting NATO against Russia isn’t spiraling in the Baltic States or Poland, but Turkey. Turkey is getting very close to being able to demand full NATO participation in the war against Syria, and its a war we can’t just ignore. Turkey has a right to demand NATO defenses and ground troops and air protection and ships as a matter of treaty rights, and we can’t say no. So, what does Obama have to do? Well, the easiest solution is to pick up the phone and call Syria’s patron–Czar Vlad Putin.

Oh, wait, Obama is trying to alienate him. OK. Let’s use our new found friendship with Iran. Darn, our key to that is–Czar Vlad Putin.

There is a very real and very scary risk that Assad is about to cross the Turkish border for real. To some extent, he seems to be relying on Obama’s Ukrainian obsession to launch a war with a real NATO ally.

This is not a time for Barry to be partying with Pope Francis. He needs to be making nice with Putin in order to get Syria under some form of control. As so often with this Regime, everything seems ad hoc and dangerously one dimensional. I don’t hear much worry about Turkey. I hear about a memorandum on Ukraine that was never ratified being bandied about as a sacred chao. But what is Barry going to do when a client state of Russia crosses the border of a NATO state? Answers please, and quick, because the tinder is starting to smolder.

Rob Meltzer

Americans don’t give a damn about Ukraine, and the world isn’t with us on isolating Russia. But, nonetheless, Obama is becoming so obsessed with Ukraine, to the exclusion of everything else, including the sudden and scary new intensity of the war in Syria, the Iran negotiations and a whole lot of other things in which Obama desperately needs Russian help. I can’t think of a smaller and less significant issue than the Israel/PLO negotiations, and yet we have the image of John Kerry, already distracted by Ukraine, flying off to Jordan to talk to Abu Mazzan about Israel.

In case you haven’t noticed, World War III is breaking out, and no one seems to be paying attention. The Syrian War has dangerously spilled over into Turkey in the last few days. The risk of a war pitting NATO against Russia isn’t spiraling in the Baltic States or Poland, but Turkey. Turkey is getting very close to being able to demand full NATO participation in the war against Syria, and its a war we can’t just ignore. Turkey has a right to demand NATO defenses and ground troops and air protection and ships as a matter of treaty rights, and we can’t say no. So, what does Obama have to do? Well, the easiest solution is to pick up the phone and call Syria’s patron–Czar Vlad Putin.

Oh, wait, Obama is trying to alienate him. OK. Let’s use our new found friendship with Iran. Darn, our key to that is–Czar Vlad Putin.

There is a very real and very scary risk that Assad is about to cross the Turkish border for real. To some extent, he seems to be relying on Obama’s Ukrainian obsession to launch a war with a real NATO ally.

This is not a time for Barry to be partying with Pope Francis. He needs to be making nice with Putin in order to get Syria under some form of control. As so often with this Regime, everything seems ad hoc and dangerously one dimensional. I don’t hear much worry about Turkey. I hear about a memorandum on Ukraine that was never ratified being bandied about as a sacred chao. But what is Barry going to do when a client state of Russia crosses the border of a NATO state? Answers please, and quick, because the tinder is starting to smolder.